Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series for 2010-11

BMB GRADUATE STUDENT MONDAY SEMINAR 2017-2018

The Graduate Student Seminar Series (held on Mondays at 4:00 PM in room 301A) is designed to give students the opportunity to present their research formally to an audience of their peers. Students in years 2 through 5 will give different presentations designed to prepare them for different kinds of scientific speaking.

 Develop students’ skills to present their science to a diverse audience in any situation.

 Improve students’ abilities to ask intelligent questions during and after seminars.

 Help students become proficient in giving constructive feedback in written and verbal formats.

HIGHLIGHTS

 All students in their first to sixth years are required to attend, until they have obtained Permission to Write.

 First-year students will introduce the speaker and title of seminar on the days indicated on the schedule. Students should contact the speaker in advance and be prepared to provide a brief background of the speaker, including what undergraduate school they attended and a brief anecdote.

 Second year students will present a 25-minute overview talk, according to the guidelines of the Qualifying Examination. After the talk, the audience will ask questions and provide verbal feedback for improving the presentation.

 Third year students will present a 30-minute talk on their research, in which the audience will be expected to ask questions during, as well as after, the talk. The audience will also provide written feedback on how to improve the presentation.

 Fourth year students will present a 15-minute talk as might be appropriate for the BMB Retreat or a national conference. After the talk, the audience will ask questions about the science and also provide verbal feedback for improving the talk.

 Fifth year students will present a formal 45-minute seminar, as would be appropriate for a thesis defense or a job talk. The audience will ask questions after the seminar and they will provide written feedback on the talk.

 Sixth year students will introduce the fifth year students for their job talks. They should strive to give a polished introduction, as appropriate for a job candidate.

1 D:\Docs\2018-04-04\04b185abb7bb755e1b31e3a8d275d7fc.docx  At noon on the Thursday preceding the talk, the student will present his/her talk to one or two faculty assigned by the Course Director. They will give verbal feedback and evaluations designed to help the student improve the talk on the following Monday.

 At the end of first term, there will be two sessions on the design and presentation of posters. In the second session, third year students will present their retreat posters (as a PowerPoint slide) and give a 3-minute talk.

 At the end of second term, fourth and fifth year students will participate in a 2- minute talk competition. There will be prizes for the best talks.

GRADING

 Each term, the course will be graded Pass/Fail, based on attendance. Students are required to sign-in at each seminar. If you do not sign in, you will not receive credit for attendance.

 Absences will be excused for attendance at conferences, conflicting courses, visa problems, or illness on an individual basis, but ONLY if you notify the Course Director by NOON on the day of the seminar. (Please copy requests to Ruth Reeves at [email protected].) Absences due to laboratory experiments, vacation, etc. will not be excused.

 Students will have 1 unexcused absence per term without penalty.

 Students will have 2 additional “wild card” unexcused absences for the year to use at any time for whatever reason.

 Students who do not exceed their allotted number of unexcused absences in a term will receive a PASS.

 Students who exceed their allotted number of unexcused absences by 1 will receive an INCOMPLETE. To convert this Incomplete to a PASS will require the student to write a 5-page paper on the subject of the seminar they missed. If a student does not submit the assigned paper by the deadline, a grade of FAIL will be given.

 Students who exceed their allotted number of unexcused absences by 2 will receive an INCOMPLETE. If the student can convince the Course Director, the Director of Graduate Studies, and the Chair of the Department that they should be given an additional unexcused absence, they will be given a PASS. Otherwise, a grade of FAIL will be given.

 Students who exceed their allotted number of unexcused absences by 3 or more will receive a grade of FAIL.

 If a student receives a grade of FAIL, it will become a permanent part of their transcript. It cannot be “made-up” or retaken

2 D:\Docs\2018-04-04\04b185abb7bb755e1b31e3a8d275d7fc.docx MONDAY STUDENT SEMINAR SCHEDULE OF SPEAKERS (2017-2018) Thursday Monday Present to Present to Introduction on Audience Student Student task Faculty Students Monday task Rm. N401 Rm. 301A Term Explain how Monday 1 Seminar Works/Seminar Expectations/Discuss how to do B.V.V. introductions/Studen Prasad/Diana t Listening/Feedbac Cox/Alex verbal 31-Jul-17 Elections k Saltzman feedback 45 min job/thesis evaluation 3-Aug-17 7-Aug-17 Michael Courtland talk, Qs after Imani Bijou form 45 min job/thesis evaluation 10-Aug-17 14-Aug-17 Franklin Gu talk, Qs after Charles Christy form 45 min job/thesis Christopher evaluation 17-Aug-17 21-Aug-17 Ryan Haley talk, Qs after Cronkite form 45 min job/thesis Omar Peña evaluation 24-Aug-17 28-Aug-17 Wes Murphy talk, Qs after Ramos form Labor Day – September 4, 2017 45 min job/thesis evaluation 7-Sep-17 11-Sep-17 Sanjeev Khatiwada talk, Qs after Hongjiang Wu form 18-Sep-17 Poster Expectations poster 21-Sep-17 25-Sep-17 1st Half Third Years presentations BETWEEN TERM BREAK TER poster M 2 5-Oct-17 9-Oct-17 2nd Half Third Years presentations 45 min job/thesis evaluation 12-Oct-17 16-Oct-17 Zhenning Ren talk, Qs after Yan Xiong form Wednesday, 45 min job/thesis evaluation October 18 23-Oct-17 Paul Vandeventer talk, Qs after Zhili Yu form Wednesday, 45 min job/thesis evaluation October 25 30-Oct-17 Stephen Wilson talk, Qs after Imani Bijou form 45 min job/thesis evaluation 2-Nov-17 6-Nov-17 Hanzhi Zhang talk, Qs after Charles Christy form 15 min conference Christopher evaluation 9-Nov-17 13-Nov-17 Kehan Chen talk, Qs after Cronkite form 15 min conference Omar Peña evaluation 16-Nov-17 20-Nov-17 Diana Cox talk, Qs after Ramos form Wednesday, 15 min conference evaluation 22-Nov-17 27-Nov-17 Daniel Keri talk, Qs after Hongjiang Wu form 15 min conference evaluation 30-Nov-17 4-Dec-17 Alex Saltzman talk, Qs after Yan Xiong form 30 min conference evaluation 7-Dec-17 11-Dec-17 Elizabeth Campbell talk, Qs after Zhili Yu form BETWEEN TERM BREAK TER 25 min QE talk, Qs evaluation M 3 4-Jan-18 8-Jan-18 Heyuan Li after Imani Bijou form MLK – January 15, 2018 25 min QE talk, Qs evaluation 18-Jan-18 22-Jan-18 David Boragine after Charles Christy form 25 min QE talk, Qs Christopher evaluation 25-Jan-18 29-Jan-18 Lie Wang after Cronkite form 25 min QE talk, Qs Omar Peña evaluation 1-Feb-18 5-Feb-18 Qingnan Liang after Ramos form Quynh Nguyen/Lythou 25 min QE talk, Qs evaluation 8-Feb-18 12-Feb-18 Yeo after Hongjiang Wu form Presidents Day (FTO) – February 19, 2018 22-Feb-18 26-Feb-18 Akhila 25 min QE talk, Qs Yan Xiong evaluation 3 D:\Docs\2018-04-04\04b185abb7bb755e1b31e3a8d275d7fc.docx Balasubranian/Shawn Briley after form BETWEEN TERM BREAK Term Renee Bertrand/Thu 25 min QE talk, Qs evaluation 4 8-Mar-18 12-Mar-18 Vu Phuc Nguyen after Zhili Yu form 30 min conference evaluation 15-Mar-18 19-Mar-18 Adam Fluty talk, Qs after Imani Bijou form 30 min conference evaluation 22-Mar-18 26-Mar-18 Vidya Sethunath talk, Qs after Charles Christy form 30 min conference Christopher evaluation 29-Mar-18 2-Apr-18 Doris Taylor talk, Qs after Cronkite form 30 min conference Omar Peña evaluation 5-Apr-18 9-Apr-18 Tianyou Yao talk, Qs after Ramos form 30 min conference evaluation 12-Apr-18 16-Apr-18 Yin Zhai talk, Qs after Hongjiang Wu form 2 min talk competition 19-Apr-18 23-Apr-18 Fourth Years (science) 2 min talk 26-Apr-18 30-Apr-18 Fifth Years competition (lay)

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Reviewer: Seminar presenter:

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1 2 3 4 Seminar Title Unacceptable Is lengthy and Is lengthy, but clear. Is concise and clear. unclear. Description Unacceptable Lacks the content Provides background, but Provides background in a & needed to it is poorly organized and clear, organized way, and Background understand the big the big the big (What is the con-text, question or question/hypothesis does question/hypothesis flows relevance?) hypothesis. not flow logically from it. logically from it.

Big Question Unacceptable No statement is A big question/gap is The big question/gap or made to explain stated, but it does not flow flows logically from the Gap what advance this logically from the background, and the (What void will be work will provide. background, or the value value of the advance is filled?) of the advance is unclear. clear.

Hypothesis Unacceptable A statement is A hypothesis is stated, but A clear concise (What prediction will made, but it is not a it is neither concise nor hypothesis is stated which be tested?) testable hypothesis. flows logically from flows logically from the the background/gap. background/gap.

Methods Unacceptable No methods or Methods, rationales and Methods, rationales and & rationales for the results are provided, but results are clearly and Results experiments are they do not follow any logically provided, and (What was done?) provided. Results logical progression or fail work towards testing the are missing stats or to test the hypothesis. hypothesis. are not presented in a logical order.

Conclusions Unacceptable The conclusions are The conclusions The conclusions & not well connected summarize the results, summarize the results, Model with the results. but no model is provided and a model is provided (What does it mean?) to tie the conclusions to tie the conclusions together. together.

Slides Unacceptable Figures are sloppy; Figures, text and amount Figures, text and (Are they visually text is too small, or of information per slide is organization are great; appealing, and do detailed; too much okay; slide titles are not slide titles provide the they facilitate information per useful; organization of the main idea of each slide; understanding?) slide; slide titles are talk is not logical. presentation is easy to Unacceptable or not follow. useful. Speaking Unacceptable Speaking style is Speaking style is too fast, Speaker engages (Is the presenter an choppy, or verbose; but clear; eye contact audience and walks them effective no eye contact; no okay; weak connections through every slide and communicator of her enthusiasm, made between slides; the entire talk; questions work?) transitions between answers to questions are are repeated, and slides are lacking; not satisfying answers are persuasive questions go unanswered

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